Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-27
NOT DIAMONDS. But PASTE.
Mrs. Duncan Cryder Very Much
AstOniShed.
New York Times.

Il
Theodore Hair, young Swede, by pro
| fessiOn butler, but in reality an ingenious
| thief, is now resting in one OF Inspector
| Blrnes's cells at police headquarters. His
method was TO find employment in tho
| bOuses OF weltO-dO families, and thence
| gaining admission into the ladies' boudoir,
| take out the stones from diamond iewelry
| and replace them with limitations. lie
would then depart. On May 18th Mrs,
| Duncan CTyder went down TO Tilany's to
| have the stones in her diamond earrings
reset. The clerk told her that the "stones"
| were paste.
She was certain they were genuine and
said they had originally come from Tif-
fany's, but examination showed them to be
but paste. In some manner limitations had
been substituted for the real stones. In-
SIector Byrnes was informed OF the facts.
From Mrs. CTyder detectives learned that
q butler who bad been in their employ for
shOit time bad been discharged on April
1st. The detectives obtained all the infOr-
nation they could about this butler. who
was Theodore lIabr. With good descrip-
ton Of HIM they set forth TO hunt him up.
A puZzing feature Of the case. however.
was that the paste diamonds had been set
by an experienced hand, or at least one
tOat had been used to working with jewel
lers' tools. The butler, 1t was ascertained
bad bad access to MIS-. Cryder's rooms in
washing the windows, which was a
part OF hi, duties. From Mrs. Cryder's
employ the butler bad zone TO work for e.
l.. RathtOrre, OF II east SiXty-fOutth
street, where he had remained few days.
The detectives next learned OF bin As liy-
ing on Eighth avenue, but could not fad
him there. They then learned that he had
prediction for horse.raclng, and Inspec-
tor Byrnes sent Detectives Hanlv and 60
gaIty over TO Clifton, New Jersey, to watch
the race-track.
Tuesday afternoon they discovered a
slight little man, who would not weigh
over 100 pounds, briskly walking near the
track. They recognized him as their man,
and followed him back to this city, where
they arrested him. On his person was a
card with the address Sl1 Sixth avenue.
There they found that he was living with
young woman whom he said was not his
wife. She had been housemaid at one OF
the places where Hahr bad been Butler.
Hair made clean breast OF it when
brought into the presence OF Inspector
Ryrnes. He stated that he had come to
this country some twelve years ago. He
vas not at all well known. as he had never
joined any walters association or union.
He had a little knowledge Of the iewelry
business. When he had taken out Mrs.
CrydeI's diamonds he found his paste sub
stItutes too large, but, owing to the set
tings Of the old ones, he was able to
spring them in all right. Mr.. Cryder is
a broker, and happening TO meet Mr..
RathbOrne, to whom the butler had gone TO
work, told him about the clever robbery.
Nr. RathbOrne, in hearing a description
OF the butler, recognized it as that OF his
late butler, who had LETT only twenty days
before. When he went home that night
his wife, at his suggestion, got out her
diamond earrings, valued ut over 5000,
and they found that Hair had done the
same thing for them as for the Cryders.
Paste diamonds were in the place OF the
genuine gems.
Inspector Byrnes found the diamonds
which had been taken from Mrs. Cryder's
esi.rings I'm iewelry store on Sixth avenue,
where Hahr had sold taem Hair was
taken to the Essex Market Police Court
yesterday afternoon and remanded until to-
day. He had many references, or alleged
references, in his pocket. Among them
were II. s. Wilson. OF % west Thirty-fith
street; James p. Kernochan, OF 3Si
Fifth avenue; NJ. Sands, of New
port, w. w. Cryder, Of Flush
Tg; and William Henry Rume, OF 1872
south Twenty-Second street, Philadelphia.
lie had worked for several gentlemen in
this city, and it will not be surprising il
they find that the same little exchange trick
has been played upon their iewelry. Hair
Is the first thief OF the kind that has fallen
into InSDectOr BVrncs's hands, There have
been cases Of exchanging bad stones for
good ones in jewelry stores, but never one
OF servants using the art IN private houses.